Mission District fire hurts 4 tenants, displaces 37

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4:00 am PDT, Monday, May 7, 2012

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San Francisco firefighters battle a four-alarm fire at a residential and commercial building on the corner of Valencia Street and Duboce Avenue in San Francisco, Sunday, May 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

San Francisco firefighters battle a four-alarm fire at a residential and commercial building on the corner of Valencia Street and Duboce Avenue in San Francisco, Sunday, May 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Photo: Jeff Chiu, Associated Press

Mission District fire hurts 4 tenants, displaces 37

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A four-alarm fire that began before 10 a.m. Sunday ravaged a three-story apartment building in San Francisco's Mission District, injuring four tenants and displacing 30 adults and seven children.

The fire, reported at 9:49 a.m. in a building at Duboce Avenue and Valencia Street with two floors of residential housing above a ground-floor liquor store, sent black smoke pouring into the air and threatened the residential building next door. It was contained at 1:15 p.m., according to a San Francisco Fire Department dispatcher.

"We've helped 37 people by providing food, clothing and temporary housing," said Cynthia Shaw, a communications director for the American Red Cross. "We believe that's the total number of residents."

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Streets surrounding the fire were closed off, and the shrill sound of sirens competed with that of car alarms and shattering glass. As the apartment building's windows filled with flames and smoke billowed out, firefighters fought the blaze from ladders and atop the blue wooden building.